The Body in Theory : Essays After Lacan and Foucault

""The body has always had the potential to unsettle us with its strange exigencies and suppurations, its demands and desires, and thus throughout the ages, it has continued to be a subject of interest and obsession. This collection of twelve peer-reviewed essays on Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault interrogates the body in all of its beauty...and with all of its blights and blemishes. Written by a diverse body of scholars-art historians, cultural theorists, English professors, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and sociologists from North America and Europe-these essays bring into conversation two intellectual giants frequently seen as antagonists, and thus rarely seen together. Topics covered include: the intersections of Foucault and Lacan and how they bring to light new thoughts on the senses, the self-destructive body, ableism and disability in Guillermo del Toro's film The Shape of Water, body image and the ego, selfie-culture, and metamorphosis in Ottessa Moshfegh's novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, among others."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: Friendship in a Time of Covid-19 • Becky R. McLaughlin and Eric Daffron 10 Towards an Understanding of the Olfactory Drive • Calum Neill and Claudia Di Gianfrancesco 34 The Living and Dead Body in Foucault’s Clinical Gaze • Lauren Jane Barnett 43 Is the Autistic Body a Body Without Organs? • Leon S. Brenner 51 The Self-Destructive Body through the Lens of Foucault and Lacan: Resistance and Jouissance • Evi Verbeke 65 Lacan, Film, and the Disabled Body • Marina Cano 77 The Hunchback as Visual Paradigm of Violence in Modern Art: Géricault, Dix, and Salomon • Michiko Oki 89 The Ego as Body Image: Lacan’s Mirror Stage Revisited • Dan Collins 101 Desire, Discourse, and Autosurgery in the Fiction of Patrick O’Brian • John Halbrooks 114 Ego Portrait: Self-Photography as Symptom in Contemporary Technoculture • Chris Vanderwees 124 Social Media, Biopolitical Surveillance, and Disciplinary Social Control: Aggregating Data to Examine Docile Bodies • Michael Loadenthal 133 From Symptom to Sinthôme: Ridding the “Body of Substance” in My Year of Rest and Relaxation • Erica D. Galioto 149 Posthumanist Metamorphosis and Discipline: Barney’s Drawing Restraint and Foucault on Raymond Roussel • Irina Chkhaidze 160 About the Contributors 186 Index 188